China
Restaurant Weighed Customers Before They Could Eat
중국 식당에서 손님에게 레스토랑 입장전에 손님에게 몸무게를 재는 해프닝이 있었습니다.
영상을 통해서 확인해 보시죠.
[영어본문내용]
Female Anchor: A restaurant chain in china
is apologizing after it weighed customers before letting them eat.
The restaurant asked people to weigh
themselves on scales and provided personal information.
Staff then recommended menu items based on
their physique.
Signs around the restaurant also encourage
diners to finish all their food.
So here's the thing, here's the caveat you
guys there this was part of a national campaign to reduce food waste.
The
President of China launched that campaign, I believe it was in August. Correct
me if I'm wrong, producers.
But there's
got to be a better way.
It wasn't mandatory that people weighed
themselves but it was strongly encouraged.
Male Anchor: Could you? I just can't
imagine.
If this was in America, you
think they're tearing things down now?
Things would get crazy if someone was
asked to be weighed before they ate.
Female Anchor: Talk about fat shaming like
it really really is and I understand that they're trying to like…
Male Anchor: No go for it.
Female Anchor: No, I understand that
they're trying to reduce food waste but again there's so many better
ways to do
this than shaming something.
Male Anchor: Let me take the other side. I
try to see both sides this is where I'm going.
The women already hate me so it
doesn't matter from the Ewan McGregor the Story.
So in China, allegedly they're
eating bats right because there is a food shortage so they're eating like crazy
things
to feed the billions of people.
Female Anchor: I don't know if everybody is…
Male Anchor: No no I'm saying but to feed a billion people
you have to have some sort of food source right?
Female Anchor: There's a food shortage, yes.
Male Anchor: There is a billion people
there. So that allegedly… that's where the COVID came from from this wet
market.
And that these wet markets they’re having people eat crazy things because
that's all they could eat.
Is this a way to try to save some kind of food? I'm
just seeing the other side.
Female Anchor: I think I appreciate you
trying to see the other side. Listen it's hard for us who are living in you
know
very privileged… where we can put groceries. When you are able to provide
groceries for your family every day,
it's hard to criticize you know a
situation that you don't know too much about. I personally don't, however, given
that
there is a food shortage there I have empathy and I understand that there
was no malicious intent coming from this
restaurant. But it did offend a lot of
diners. There had to have been a better way.
There had to have been some sort
of other campaign like you know make sure that you order whatever you order
that
you actually finish it. Or maybe you limit people on what to order but you
don't make it about their weight.
You just say we're limiting what you order
because of the food shortage not because of your weight.
Male Anchor: This seems like a Saturday
live skit or something.
Female Anchor: When I read the story, I was
like oh no but yeah there is layers to it.
There is but they could have done
better.
Male Anchor: We tried our best.
[영어본문단어]
* apologize : 사과하다
* provide : 제공하다, 주다, 규정하다
* information : 정보
* recommend : 추천하다, (행동 방침 등을)권고하다
* based : (~에) 기반을 둔, (~에) 근거지를 둔
* physique : (사람의) 체격
* mandatory : 법에 정해진, 의무적인
* talk about : (강조의 뜻으로) ~하기란
* seem : (~인,하는 것처럼)보이다, ~인것 같다
* do good : (~에게) 도움이 되다
* better : 더좋은, 더잘하는
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